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1543 sats \ 20 comments \ @grayruby 22 Nov 2023 meta

Yesterday was a long and busy day but everything went well. My wife is doing well after her minor surgery and the kiddos are keeping me busy while she is resting. There was one unfortunate casualty though, my cowboy hat. Ugh 150 day streak gone. I should have zapped when I jumped on to do the post but I thought I would jump on later to check the comments and release the zaps. Never happened. So like CMC with his touchdown streak, I have jumped right back on the horse to start anew.

I am looking forward to the Thanksgiving day games tomorrow. I think we should do a pick 'em since it is a 3 game set. I will post that shortly.

The NBA in-season tournament is humming along and somehow I am still alive in the pool. @undisciplined has posted the next set of games so don't forget to get your picks in before Friday. #325059

Sats for all.

Cheers, GR

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125 sats \ 15 replies \ @Undisciplined 22 Nov 2023

Alright! I'm moving up the cowboy hat streak rankings and there are no speedbumps on my horizon.

Glad to hear your wife's doing well

252 sats \ 14 replies \ @grayruby OP 22 Nov 2023

Thanks. She is in a bit of pain but resting. She is laying in bed with my daughter and the dog watching a movie right now so she is happy.

At least I surpassed my last streak. Last time I lost my hat I was in the 90s. This time 150, so I have to push for 200.

How did you do on your FreeBitcoin NFL bets last weekend? I won 4/7 but it was all low odd wins so I am actually down 1000 sats for the week (although 500 of that was that flyer I took on the Bears at those crazy odds that would have covered my whole week- almost worked out- I regret nothing).

71 sats \ 13 replies \ @Undisciplined 22 Nov 2023

I think I lost about half my sats last week and only hit on 3/7. I'm using a totally new strategy this week with lots of hedges. I'm on both sides of everything, but if I had used this strategy last week, I would have come out ahead.

252 sats \ 12 replies \ @grayruby OP 22 Nov 2023

Need a confusing esoteric name for your strategy like tradfi would make up.

252 sats \ 8 replies \ @grayruby OP 22 Nov 2023

Ok here is what I came up with "Risk balanced odds arbitrage" and here is what chatGPT came up with "Quantitative Odds Optimization Model".

Who sounded more like an asshole?

100 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 22 Nov 2023

I like both of those. Yours is more descriptive but still really vague. ChatGPT's is pure vague jargon salad, while not being actually incorrect.

I think I'll use "risk balanced odds arbitrage" and sound really smart as I continue losing money every week. Maybe spin it off into a newsletter or something.

231 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby OP 22 Nov 2023

Haha nice. I didn't balance any risk at all. Odds are crazy right now. Odds on Jags really caught my eye. I bet all underdogs except the 49ers.

71 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 22 Nov 2023

Well, according to my very sophisticated Risk Balanced Odds Arbitrage approach that's pretty good.

However, RBOA would suggest that the smarter money is on the Dolphins, Jags, and Chiefs, at current odds.

I have noticed the odds swinging towards the underdogs, though. I think people jump in early and throw money on the underdogs, which makes the odds wonky for a couple of days.

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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 22 Nov 2023

First try: VOSH

Vegas Odds-based Strategic Hedging

231 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 22 Nov 2023

I like it has an acronym.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 22 Nov 2023

Yeah, but you can actually decipher what I'm doing from it, so it needs to be more muddled and pretentious.

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @gnilma 23 Nov 2023

Good to hear your wife is doing well.

Man, did you catch that Raptors game? Pascal had a great game. The Raps really dodged a bullet there at the end. Gary Treant Jr. though... missing both clutch free throws? SMH...

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 23 Nov 2023

Yes, it was a great game. Even more impressive because the Pacers dynamic duo backcourt had amazing games too. They were 12/22 from 3 or something ridiculous like that. Pascal was awesome. Raps are much more fun to watch this year. A lot more ball movement.

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @tnuts420 22 Nov 2023

glad to hear about your wife, sorry to hear about your cowboy streak

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 23 Nov 2023

150 days was pretty good. I will aim to surpass it this time.